Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Foreign firms have moved in and tapped Arizona’s unregulated water supply. Local farmers say that their wells have dried up since since an Emirati alfalfa farm moved in.
Tensions are bubbling up at Arizona alfalfa farms as water becomes a top commodity. Foreign firms have moved in and tapped Arizona’s unregulated water sup…
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WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has used groundwater to grow forage crops here for more than six decades. They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil an […]
WENDEN, Ariz. (AP) — A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun.